Stimulus Checks Back Child Support

Federal law requires child support agencies to have procedures to collect past due child support from federal tax refunds.

Stimulus checks back child support. The payment is lower at 600 per eligible person and the income limits to qualify are stricter this time. In the federal stimulus bill the cares act congress did not exempt the. In the first stimulus the coronavirus aid relief and economic security act passed last spring states were allowed to intercept and seize a portion or all of direct payments to parents with child support arrears.

Federal law requires child support agencies to have procedures to collect past due child support from federal tax refunds. In the first stimulus payments in april 2020 which directed 1 200 to eligible adults as well as 500 per child it typically took two weeks to several months for payments to reach people. This will not be the case for the second.

For example if you owed 2 000. There s good news for married people whose coronavirus stimulus payments were wrongly garnished to pay their spouse s back child support. With the first stimulus check if you owed child support payments by as much as 150 the government gave states the right to garnish the amount you needed to pay.

In the second stimulus round some important rules are changing for parents who owe child support. About 50 000 people whose payments were garnished will be. The 1 400 stimulus check however seems to have broader bipartisan support.

The second stimulus paymentdoesn t come with the same rules as the first. That support as well as backing for the package as a whole could grow as disparities between economic classes grow.